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Gen Hoshino

1981 - Today

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Gen Hoshino (星野 源, Hoshino Gen, born January 28, 1981) is a Japanese singer-songwriter, musician, actor, and writer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gen Hoshino has received more than 656,488 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Gen Hoshino is the 8,454th most popular actor (down from 8,256th in 2019), the 1,861st most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,741st in 2019) and the 195th most popular Japanese Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 660k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 40.40

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.31

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.06

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Gen Hoshino ranks 8,454 out of 13,578. Before him are Diane Neal, Guy Kibbee, Steven Michael Quezada, Camila Bordonaba, Justin Berfield, and Masanobu Ando. After him are Michelle Keegan, Tom Sturridge, Wu Chun, Josephine Langford, Anna Neagle, and Lee So-yeon.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1981, Gen Hoshino ranks 289. Before him are Anders Holm, Lee Yu-ri, Vic Chou, Kiera Cass, Hans Lindberg, and Dimitris Papadopoulos. After him are Lucy Aharish, M. Shadows, Zhang Yining, Clemente Rodríguez, David Anders, and Yuki Abe.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Gen Hoshino ranks 1,861 out of 6,245. Before him are Yu Darvish (1986), Yūko Minaguchi (1966), Toru Sano (1963), Miyuki Sawashiro (1985), Keiji Tamada (1980), and Masanobu Ando (1975). After him are Momoko Kikuchi (1968), Kazuya Maekawa (1968), Rika Fukami (1963), Nobuhiko Okamoto (1986), Sakura Ando (1986), and Hisashi Kurosaki (1968).

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Among ACTORS In Japan

Among actors born in Japan, Gen Hoshino ranks 195. Before him are Masaya Onosaka (1964), Miki Itō (1962), Sayaka Ohara (1975), Yūko Minaguchi (1966), Miyuki Sawashiro (1985), and Masanobu Ando (1975). After him are Momoko Kikuchi (1968), Rika Fukami (1963), Nobuhiko Okamoto (1986), Sakura Ando (1986), Marina Inoue (1985), and Tomoko Kawakami (1970).

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Television and Movie Roles

Mirai
Father (voice)
Unhappy after his new baby sister displaces him, four-year-old Kun begins meeting people and pets from his family's history in their unique house in order to help him become the big brother he was meant to be.
Jun 16o 20187.173 / 10
Night Is Short, Walk On Girl
Senpai (voice)
As a group of university students go out for a night on the town, a sophomore known only as "The Girl with Black Hair" experiences a series of surreal encounters with the local nightlife – all the while unaware of the romantic longings of "Senpai", a senior student who has been creating increasingly fantastic and contrived reasons to run into her in an effort to win her heart.
Apr 7o 20177.5 / 10
Saint☆Young Men
Gautama Buddha (voice)
Jesus Christ and Gautama Buddha, the founders of Christianity and Buddhism, are living together as roommates in a Tokyo apartment while taking a vacation on Earth. The comedy often involves jokes about Christianity, Buddhism, and all things related, as well as the main characters' attempts to hide their identities and understand modern society in Japan.
May 9o 20137.6 / 10